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title = "E-Mail is hard"
date = "2020-01-14"
description = "Migrating email clients."
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E-Mail tech is hard... for some reason. Over twenty years since the
internet went mainstream, email clients mostly suck. Even if one uses a
web interface, many of these do not respond well on small screens
(lacking or buried features) or they use too much of the resources on
the device.

I originally used pine/alpine. Over the last few years I have bounced
from one client to another, mostly landing on gnus and thunderbird. My
main complaints with these:

-   gnus configs can break too easily.
-   I don\'t care about lists or newsgroups anymore.
-   gnus feels like emacs in [hard
    mode](https://github.com/redguardtoo/mastering-emacs-in-one-year-guide/blob/master/gnus-guide-en.org).
-   thunderbird has no thick CLI.

For me, one of the most empowering things when I starting moving to the
CLI happened when I figured out how to use some of the basic tools such
as find, grep, and ls. All the things the IDE world wanted me to believe
they had a monopoly on crashed down to a speedy, pipe-able set of
features.

I have a place in my heart for gnus. So let\'s take a look at mutt. Side
note, I might use that instead. But anyway, similarly to gnus, checkout
out all the documentation. Starting from the [newbie guid
intro](https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/wikis/MuttGuide/Introduction)
page, I have a manual, a newbie guide, and this page on how to use them.
I haven\'t done anything yet, and already I\'ve gone meta.
